This book comes more than a decade after the publication of its first edition, EU Criminal
Law, in 2009. Since then, a lot has changed. The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has led …

Judicial independence appears on most laundry lists of all bodies or institutions engaged
with the rule of law. It is considered an unqualified public good. As a result, all major players …

Judicial councils and other judicial self-government bodies have become a worldwide
phenomenon. Democracies are increasingly turning to them to insulate the judiciary from the …

What impact does the European Union (eu) have on the development of the rule of law in
South Eastern Europe (see)? The author of this article argues and shows that the eu has: 1) …

Recent scholarship has exposed the “eu's pathological power”, which has undermined the
creation of the rule of law in South Eastern Europe (see) and beyond. This paper discusses …

The aim of this article is to introduce a novel view on how to evaluate the share of power
held by judges in judicial governance. Its contribution to court administration and the …

This chapter reviews the existing literature on the rule of law in Central and Eastern Europe
(CEE) and focuses on the literature which has tried to account for uneven rule of law …

Although the rule of law is globally and regionally increasingly in focus, there are various
attempts to blur the separation of powers and weaken judiciary, its integrity and …

This article explores the interrelationship between national and supranational politics in
contemporary history. In Europe, the nature of national and transnational politics, law and …

This article proposes a novel two-level instrument for analytically robust distinction of
typological differences in the area of rule of law (ROL) among the European countries. The …